Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 3]
(\dunamei\). Instrumental case, _causa effectiva_. {Godliness}
(\eusebei•i\). _Causa meritoria_. {Had made} (\pepoi•kosin\).
Perfect active participle of \poie•\. {To walk} (\tou
peripatein\). Articular infinitive in the genitive case of
result, purpose easily shading off into result (ecbatic
infinitive) as here as is true also of \hina\.
3:13 {His servant Jesus} (\ton paida I•soun\). This phrase occurs
in Isa 42:1; 52:13 about the Messiah except the name "Jesus"
which Peter adds, the first part of the quotation is from Ex
3:6; 5:30. The LXX translated the Hebrew _ebhedh_ by \pais\, the
servant of Jehovah being a Messianic designation. But the phrase
"servant of God" (\pais theou\) is applied also to Israel (Lu
1:54) and to David (Lu 1:69; Ac 4:25). Paul terms himself
\doulos theou\ (Tit 1:1). \Pais\ is just child (boy or girl),
and it was also used of a slave (Mt 8:6,8,13). But it is not
here \huios\ (son) that Peter uses, but \pais\. Luke quotes Peter
as using it again in this Messianic sense in Ac 3:26; 4:27,30.
{Whom ye delivered up} (\hon humeis men pared•kate\). Note
emphatic use of \humeis\ (ye). No \de\ to correspond to \men\.
First aorist active (\k\ aorist) plural indicative of
\paradid•mi\ (usual form \paredote\, second aorist). {When he}
(\ekeinou\). Emphatic pronoun, that one, in contrast with "ye"
(\humeis\), genitive absolute with \krinantos\, here the nearest
word (Pilate), the latter.
3:14 {But ye} (\humeis de\). In contrast with Pilate (\ekeinou\).
{Murderer} (\andra phonea\). A man a murderer. In contrast with
"the Holy and Righteous One." {To be granted} (\charisth•nai\).
As a favour (\charis\). First aorist passive infinitive of
\charizomai\; So also 25:11; 27:24.
3:15 {But the Prince of life ye killed} (\ton de arch•gon t•s
z••s apekteinate\). "The magnificent antithesis" (Bengel) Peter
here draws between their asking for a murderer and killing the
Prince (or Author) of life. Peter pictures Jesus as the source of
all life as is done in Joh 1:1-18; Col 1:14-20; Heb 1:2f.
\Arch•gos\ (\arch•\, beginning, \ag•\, to lead) is an adjective
"furnishing the first cause or occasion" in Euripides, Plato.
Thence substantive, the originator, the leader, the pioneer as of
Jesus both Beginner and Finisher (Heb 12:2). See also Heb
2:10; Ac 5:31 where it is applied to Jesus as "Prince and
Saviour." But God raised him from the dead in contrast to what
they had done. {Whereof we are witnesses} (\hou h•meis martures
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